11th Grade Reading List:

NOTE: Students taking Modern Fiction may not read the Kite Runner



Psychology

  1. Flowers for Algernon
  2. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden


REGIONAL STUDIES 2008 - 2009 READING LIST




BOOK TITLE
AUTHOR
Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Between Two Worlds
Zainab Salbi and Laurie Becklund
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
Thura’s Diary
Thura al-Windawi
Real Time
Pnina Moed Kass
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations
Eric Dinerstein
Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz
The Bookseller of Kabul
Asna Seierstad
Martyr’s Crossing
Amy Wilentz
Life Along the Silk Road
Susan Whitfield
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
Ross E. Dunn
Salt: a World History
Mark Kurlansky
The Road from Coorain
Jill Kerr Conway
Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield
Under the Persimmon Tree
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Genocide: Modern Crimes Against Humanity
Brendan January
Ask Me No Questions
Marina Budhos


ADAPTED READS REGIONAL STUDIES **


Understanding the Holy Land: Answering Questions about the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict
Mitch Frank
Spilled Water (adapted)*
Sally Grindley
Homeless Bird*
Gloria Whelan
Monsoon Summer*
Mitali Perkins



AP European History Reading List

  1. After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe -- G. Huppert
  2. Renaissance Europe: The Individual and Society – J.R. Hale
  3. Leaders of the Reformation – R.L. Molen
  4. Frontiers of Heresy: The Spanish Inquisition from the Basque Lands to Sicily –W. Monter
  5. Elizabeth I --- W. MacCaffrey
  6. The Spanish Armada G. Parker and C. Martin
  7. The Age of Religious Wars --- R.S. Dunn
  8. The Splendid Century --- W. H. Lewis
  9. Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen --- P. Goubert
  10. A History of the Hapsburg Empire --- R.A. Kann
  11. Land and Peasants in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century – J. Blum
  12. Peter the Great and the Emergence of Russia --- B. H. Sumner
  13. The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630 --- M. Boas
  14. The Military revolution; Military Technology in the Rise of the West – G. Parker
  15. London Life in the Eighteenth Century --- M. George
  16. A Cultural History of the French revolution --- E. Kennedy
  17. France Under Napoleon --- L Bergeron
  18. From Domestic Manufacturing to Industrial Revolution; The Case of the Rhineland Textile Districts --- H. Kirsh
  19. Revolutions of 1848: A Social History --- P. Robertson
  20. Napoleon III and the rebuilding of Paris --- D. Pickney
  21. The Conquest of Water : The Advent of Health in the Industrial Age --- J.P. Goubert
  22. The decline and Fall of the Hapsburg Empire 1815-1918 --- A. Sked
  23. Peasant and Proletarian: The Working Class of Moscow at the End of the Nineteenth Century --- R. Johnson
  24. The New Imperialism --- H. Wright
  25. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 --- A. Horne
  26. Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace --- T. Bailey
  27. Europe of the Dictators 1919-1945 --- E. Wiskemann
  28. The Rise and fall of the Third Reich --- W. Shirer
  29. The Two Germanies Since 1945: East and West --- H. Turner
  30. Down with Big Brother : The Fall of the Soviet Empire --- M. Dobbs